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Small animal laparoscopy and thoracoscopy /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fransson, Boel A. (Boel Anita) (Editor), Mayhew, Philipp D. (Philipp David) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Ames, Iowa] : [Germantown, Md.] : Wiley Blackwell ; American College of Veterinary Surgeons Foundation, [2015]
Subjects:
Veterinary endoscopic surgery.
Veterinary laparoscopic surgery.
Pets > Surgery.
Surgery, Veterinary > methods.
Laparoscopy > veterinary.
Thoracoscopy > veterinary.
Laparoscopes > veterinary.
Thoracoscopes > veterinary.
Pets > surgery.
Table of Contents:
  • Surgeons' skills training
  • Minimally invasive suturing techniques
  • Imaging equipment and operating room setup
  • Surgical instrumentation
  • Energy devices and stapling equipment
  • Single-incision laparoscopic surgery devices
  • Anesthesia management of dogs and cats for laparoscopy
  • Laparoscopic access techniques
  • The laparoscopic working space : pneumoperitoneum techniques and patient positioning
  • Laparoscopic contraindications, complications, and conversion
  • Diagnostic laparoscopy of the gastrointestinal tract
  • Laparoscopic-assisted gastrotomy, enterotomy, enterectomy, and anastomosis
  • Laparoscopic-assisted feeding tube placement
  • Laparoscopic and laparoscopic-assisted gastropexy tehcniques
  • Laparoscopic splenectomy
  • Liver biopsy and cholecystocentesis
  • Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • Laparscopic adrenalectomy
  • Laparoscopic surgery of the pancreas
  • Laparoscopic renal biopsy
  • Laparoscopic ureteronephrectomy
  • Laparoscopic-assisted nephrolith removal
  • Laparoscopic-assisted cytoscopy for urolith removal and mass resection
  • Laparoscopic ovariectomy and ovariohysterectomy
  • Cryptorchidectomy and vasectomy
  • The role of laparoscopy in cancer staging
  • Diaphragmatic and inguinal herniorrhaphy
  • Advanced surgical platforms : NOTES and robotic surgery
  • Anesthesia for thoracoscopy
  • Patient positioning, port placement, and access techniques for thoracoscopic surgery
  • Thoracoscopic contraindications, complications, and conversion
  • Thracoscopic lung biopsy and lung lobectomy
  • Thoracoscopic pericardial window and subtotal pericardectomy in dogs and cats
  • Thoracoscopic placement of epicardial pacemakers
  • Right auricular mass resection
  • Minimally invasive treatment of chylothorax
  • Thoracoscopic treatment of vascular ring anamolies
  • Thoracoscopic mediastinal mass resection
  • Minimally invasive cancer staging in the thorax.